download mac os x snow leopard iso for virtualbox

Part 5 – Special Settings for AMD CPUs (Screenshot 1)Īt the next screen you’ll see a “Customize” button at the bottom left.

Now close the Disk Utility and continue with the installation. Under Erase, choose Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and then name it ‘OSX’ and click ‘Erase’ again.ĥ. You’ll see the Disk, but it can’t be used until it formatted.Ĭhoose the Harddrive and click the ‘Erase’ tab. When you get to the first screen with a menu bar, choose Utilities-> Disk Utility.Ĥ. So you have to format it with ‘Disk Utility’. Follow the screens step by step, most of it is common sense.ģ. The VBox HD is blank. As soon as it starts run, a message will appear for you to hit enter to boot from CDĢ. In the drive settings, choose Hazard’s Snow Leopard iso, attach it the tht virtual CD drive, and start the VMġ.

Only provide up to 2048Mb of RAM, more fails for some reason.

Disable EFI (This caused me a couple of failures ).

Once it is done, open Settings > System > Mother Board, and change: Part 3 – Create and Configure the Virtual HarddriveĬreate a 30 Gb fixed Virtualbox drive for Mac. Obviously, the legality of this image and running it virtually is in question, but as I said, both the iso and VM have been deleted now. I got one created by Hazard that is AMD 64bit compatible. Luckily I have one of these, so I created the directory there, and pointed VirtualBox to use that one instead. One thing i noticed is that Virtualbox has an Ext4 bug which means that if you want to install Mac, your VirtualBox VMs directory needs to be on an NTFS partition.

This is why I did this out of curiosity, as Apple Macs are Intel-centric. I use Debian Squeeze with an AMD 64bit Quadcore CPU, Ati 1Gb GPU and 8Gb RAM. Everything was polished and nice to look at, but as a Debian (Openbox) user, i’m impressed by speed and reliability, not pretty wallpapers and icons. One thing I did notice while playing around with Mac, is how similar Ubuntu (Unity) is becoming to the Mac desktop. I did this out of curiosity and just for the challenge more than anything, then deleted this VM shortly afterwards.

Download mac os x snow leopard iso for virtualbox